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JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu. Did scientists really discover alien life?
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In this video, we explore JAXA’s Hayabusa2 mission, to bring a piece of 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Ryugu back to Earth. Hidden within this pristine dust from the early solar system, scientists found something they never expected… signs of life. Was this the first groundbreaking discovery of life beyond Earth, or just a mistake?



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1:32 Why Study Asteroids?
3:22 Jaxa Mission: Hayabusa2
5:39 Retrieving Samples
7:34 What Did the Samples Contain?
10:53 Alien Evidence
12:31 Contamination
15:48 What’s Next?



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References:
“Hayabusa”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/hayabusa
“Hayabusa 2”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/hayabusa2
“The sample from asteroid Ryugu: summary early 2023”, via jaxa.jp https://astrumspace.info/ryugusample
“Near-Earth asteroid Ryugu was born in the outer solar system 4 billion years ago”, via space.com https://astrumspace.info/ryuguanalysis
“First Look at Ryugu Asteroid Sample Reveals it is Organic-Rich”, via nasa.gov https://astrumspace.info/ryuguorganics
“Rapid colonization of a space-returned Ryugu sample by terrestrial microorganisms”, via wiley.com https://astrumspace.info/ryugucontamination
“Analysis of Uncontaminated Extraterrestrial Materials from Asteroid Ryugu”, via hightech.com https://astrumspace.info/ryuguuncontaminated
“Why collect asteroid samples?”, via theconversation.com https://astrumspace.info/asteroidsamples



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Credits:
Writer: Julia Masselos
Video Editor: Nathália Huzian
Researcher: Edie Abrahams
Thumbnail Designer: Peter Sheppard
Channel Manager: Georgina Brenner
Executive Producer: Raquel Taylor
Creator of Astrum: Alex McColgan



With special thanks to:
NASA/ESO/ESA



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